On 01/13/2013 10:06 PM, Nick Bowler wrote:
On 2013-01-13, Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com wrote:
Another useful follow-up would be to move the AM_PROG_CC_C_O in a private
macro (to be expanded in AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE like you did above), and
make AM_PROG_CC_C_O a no-op
[+cc bug-autoconf]
Reference:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13378#127
On 01/13/2013 10:06 PM, Nick Bowler wrote:
On 2013-01-13, Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com wrote:
On 01/13/2013 09:01 PM, Nick Bowler wrote:
+dnl Automatically invoke AM_PROG_CC_C_O as necessary.
On 01/14/13 02:24, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
Autoconfers, WDYT?
I think I'm lost. http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13378
is a long thread.
Hi Paul.
On 01/14/2013 08:45 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 01/14/13 02:24, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
Autoconfers, WDYT?
I think I'm lost. http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13378
is a long thread.
Yeah, sorry for not giving a more clear summary.
Here are the main grips I (and I
On 01/12/2013 05:51 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
Instead, only touch up AC_PROG_CC to distribute the 'compile' script and
to rewrite $CC if a losing compiler is detected.
That reads poorly - I first parsed it as if losing compiler, then
(distribute the 'compile' script and rewrite $CC); when
OK, this is getting ridiculous, but we cannot remove this macro yet
(and, yes, the fault for this mess lies entirely on me; let's not
dwell on that, thank you very much).
Gettext (so far the greatest offender in the use of AM_PROG_MKDIR), in
its latest release 0.18.2, has removed all the uses of
On 01/14/2013 09:26 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 01/12/2013 05:51 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
Instead, only touch up AC_PROG_CC to distribute the 'compile' script and
to rewrite $CC if a losing compiler is detected.
That reads poorly - I first parsed it as if losing compiler, then
(distribute
On 01/14/2013 11:56 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
1. It checks that *both* 'cc' and '$CC' (which might easily be 'gcc'
or 'clang') supports -c -o together. Why? If the user has a
broken base vendor compiler, but has installed a better one (say
GCC), why should he still be